WD new 200 GB Hd is on sale...

[Adul]

ON sale but not in stock. I wonder when it will be in stock. Who here will be buying one?

 

[WyteWatt]

Adul i wish i could or at least a 80 or 120 gig one with 8MB of cache.

 

[AdamDuritz99]

Originally posted by: imtim83
Adul i wish i could or at least a 80 or 120 gig one with 8MB of cache.

Ditto, i'm still stuck with my 20 gig hd

peace
sean

 

[VBboy]

Specs:

• 3 Year Limited Warranty

• ATA/100, Up to 100mb/s data transfer rate

• 7200 RPM spindle speed

Daaaamn, girl! 7200 RPM! 200 Gigs! I don't trust this thing spinning so fast with my precious data

 

[ElFenix]

well i'm up to 340 gigs with a seagate cuda iv coming my way. i could get 4 of those for this price, which is 320 gigs... i wonder when i'll hit one TB of storage?

 

[Adul]

but with 4 of those drives, you can store 800 MB

 

[ahsia]

Originally posted by: Adul
but with 4 of those drives, you can store 800 MB

I think you mean 800gb?

200gb is a lot of storage space. I haven't filled up my 120gb yet.....

 

[Wolfsraider]

thanks adul

boy you are really on the ball this week

 

[kazeakuma]

Originally posted by: ahsia

Originally posted by: Adul
but with 4 of those drives, you can store 800 MB

I think you mean 800gb?

200gb is a lot of storage space. I haven't filled up my 120gb yet.....

I have . Sad to say but I'm actually thinking about one of these. I currently have 180GB of storage and 10gb free. I think I can wait until prices drop though.

 

[Adul]

i actually want 4 of these drivers to run in a raid 5 config.

 

[Fulcrum]

I'm waiting on the Seagate Barracuda V.

 

[BD231]

Originally posted by: kazeakuma

Originally posted by: ahsia

Originally posted by: Adul
but with 4 of those drives, you can store 800 MB

I think you mean 800gb?

200gb is a lot of storage space. I haven't filled up my 120gb yet.....

I have . Sad to say but I'm actually thinking about one of these. I currently have 180GB of storage and 10gb free. I think I can wait until prices drop though.

"Dats'a hoe lotta porno"

 

[ChrisIsBored]

Anyone else wonder how this drive can be ATA-100 when the limit is 137GB??? :Q

 

[sharkeeper]

i actually want 4 of these drivers to run in a raid 5 config.

200GB is a LOT to waste!

Cheers!

 

[ViRGE]

chrisis, it has to be a typo; there's no other way than ATA133 to get above that limit.

 

[Pariah]

The drive size limit is not tied to any ATA standard, a fix for it just happened to be released with ATA133 by Maxtor. A BIOS update to any ATA standard will overcome the limit.

 

[CloudsShinji]

As well, it says this at the bottom of the product page:

FREE ? Promise Technology Ultra ATA Controller Card

Most computer systems are not designed to accept drives over 137 GB. To overcome that barrier, you will need to install a special Ultra ATA Controller Card that we will send to you at no charge. For more information on the 137 GB Barrier, please read the following information: 137 GB Barrier

 

[Ben50]

I noticed on the site that 180 GB and 160 GB drives are also available.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Adul
i actually want 4 of these drivers to run in a raid 5 config.

I thought it was 3 drives in RAID 5 - 2 striped, 1 parity. Or is that RAID 0+1? Or is that the same thing? I was never straight on the RAID numbers...


This would be great to add to a Tivo or something like that.

 

[Pariah]

3 drives is the minimum requirement for RAID5. You can have as many drives above that as the controller can handle. There is no parity drive for RAID 5, only for RAID 3 and 4. With RAID 5 the parity data is spread across all the drives so no matter how many you have, you only lose one drive's capacity to parity data.

 

[Adul]

what pariak said now if i can find that good raid 5 card

 

[sharkeeper]

what pariak said now if i can find that good raid 5 card

There's plenty of good cards capable of RAID5. Of course it will be hard to get a SCSI controller to "talk" to a parallel ATA disk!

Another thing to remember is with STR's of these disks, even two will easily saturate a 32/33 PCI bus when run in RAID0. Unfortunately the only way to get 64bit PCI is to purchase a dual cpu mainboard OR stick with a P3. (Super Micro has a single socket 370 serverworks based chipset with 64bit PCI)

You definitely want to avoid junk chipsets that slow down the pci bus! :Q

Cheers!

 

[Adul]

i would consider a dual proc system. The extra power would be used to run seti

 

[StattlichPassat]

I've got a WD 20GB and 80GB drive- I think I'm good to go for another... oh... 4 months (damn KaZaA!).

 

[spamsk8r]

"Dats'a hoe lotta porno"

LMAO!!!